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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
In nineteen forty-two, the conductor Andre Kostelanetz asked Copland to write music about a great American, Abraham Lincoln. Copland wrote Lincoln Portrait to honor America's sixteenth president. Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.